The Elijah Mandate
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before we talk about the book at all: where did you do most of your reading, and was there a mug or blanket involved?
Elijah is a name a lot of us have heard since childhood. What picture came to mind when you first saw the title, and how close was it to what you found inside?
The book spends time on Elijah at his most worn out, not just his most heroic. How did it feel to read about a prophet being tired?
There is a lot of attention to quiet, gentle moments rather than loud ones. Which of those quieter passages settled something in you?
Tsarfati writes from the land itself, with wadis, caves, and dry hills in view. Did any of that scenery stay with you after you closed the book, and why do you think it stuck?
The idea of a 'mandate,' something you are given rather than something you choose, runs through the book. Was that a comforting thought for you or an uneasy one?
Was there a place where the book named something you have felt but never quite said out loud? You do not have to go into detail, just tell us what it touched.
Elijah is given provision in small, ordinary ways before anything dramatic happens. Looking back on a hard stretch of your own life, what were your ravens and your bread?